The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-29
SIFTINGS OF CITY NEWS.
LITTLE GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.

Dashes Here and There by the News
Reporters - Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief Paragraphs-Pickings at
Police Headquarters.
There was one arrest for larceny and
three for fighting yesterday.
I The Savannah Cadets will hold a special
meeting tonight at their armory.
The annual renting of pews in the indie
pendent Presbyterian church will take
place on Thursday
The ST. Andrews Society will give its
18th anniversary supper at the Pulaski
house to morrow night.
The Rural Resort railroad was still pro-
crossing yesterday. Bay street is being re-
paved as the railroad force get through
with its work.
The passenger elevator in the Masonic
Temple which is to ''raise" the brethren to
the ''topmost pinnacle of the temple as
it were, is rapidly approaching completion.
The Young Mems Christian Association
has arranged with Mr.. Henry FIRTH Wood
to give his illustrated lecture on 1.-THE
Growth Of the Bald Spotn on Dec. Is, in
Odd Fellows Hall.
There were 1913 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreets last week,
against 223 I'm the preceding week, and 2O4,
1913, 271 and 22S in the corresponding weeks
of 1886, 1885, 1884 and 1888.
An accident occurred on the Central rail-
road at Rogers station yesterday afternoon,
but it was not serious. The buffers were
broken off two freight cars, but the paSsen-
ger trains were not delayed.
The MORNING NEWS artesian well had
reached depth of 2S6 feet when the work
men knocked Off" last night. 1t is ex-
pected that good flow Of water will be
struck to morrow or the day after if no ac-
cident happens to the machinery.
Henry Gatchell was found sleeping in an
unoccupied building on Habersham and
Waldburg streets last night. The officer
thought that he might suffer from the eff
feet of the cold wave and start one of those
destructive fires, so he took him into the
barracks and gave him warm bed.
Joe Benjamin was arrested last night for
sleeping in the shed of w. G. Ebbs, on
President and Randolph streets. Ebbs says
the tramps have stolen nearly ton of hay
from him, and he is getting tired of them,
so he made an example of this one and lock-
ed him up as a suspicious character.
Judge Adams, Solicitor General duBignon,
Col r. E. Lester Hon Peter Meldrim and
W. w. Fraser, ESQ, left yesterday morning
for Darien to hold the November term of
court This is the last court on the circuit.
The next to be opened will be the Superior
Court of Chatham county, which will con-
vene Dec. 5.
Another of a series of concerts to be
given during the winter for the benefit of
the Seamen will be given on Friday night.
The Chaplain of the Port Society, solicits
help in the way of refreshments of any
kind, and any who are willing to take part
in the concert will confer a favor by re-
porting to him either by mail or in person.
George Hodges, of the Marshall House,
swore out a warrant against Mike Henessey
yesterday afternoon because Of difficulty
which they had last Saturday night in the
hotel. Henessey was not behaving in a way
that was satisfactory and Hodges insisted
that he should be more orderly. Henessey
became angry, and is said to have drawn a
knife on Hodges, who hit him with a spit
toon. They were separated, and Henessev
left the hotel. He was arrested yesterday
under the warrant, but gave bond.